ECC Website News

On September 11th and 12th 2010 the Troy 24-hour Coaster Challenge takes place in Amusement park Toverland. This challenge is organised by the European Coaster Club (ECC) in collaboration with Amusement park Toverland. During this unique Challenge 12 fans from different international fan clubs will ride the wooden roller coaster Troy for 24 hours.

There are 220 seats available through an auction benefiting the dutch Make a wish foundation

Download the press release now for more details about how to place your bid.

• Press Release (English)
• Persbericht (Nederlands)

We've uploaded a selection of photos from our recent Welsh Weekender trip to Folly Farm and Oakwood Theme Park in Wales.

Version 3.6 of Malcolm Marr's World Parks Project for Google Earth is now available to download from the ECC website. See the Library section for the download link.

We're working on some great trips for 2010 and 2011 including Oakwood (6th - 8th August 2010), Netherlands (22nd - 26th September 2010^*) and a large tour of Germany (2011^*)

Watch this space for more details as it becomes available.

^* Dates to be confirmed.

The North America trip has started and as usual we have daily trip reports as the lucky group of travellers send in their updates.

Version 3.5 of Malcolm Marr's World Parks Project for Google Earth is now available to download from the ECC website and it has a huge number of new parks added, and lots of updates. See the Library section for the download link.

This year Toverland (Sevenum, Limburg, Netherlands) in cooperation with the European Coaster Club will hold a 24h coaster challenge on the wooden coaster Troy. The ECC can delegate 2 members + 1 reserve for this event. You can find all the details in the invite.

• Invite (Dutch)
• Invite (English)

The member offers page has been updated with offers from seventeen parks around the world for the 2010 coaster season.

Version 3.3 of Malcolm Marr's World Parks Project for Google Earth is now available to download from the ECC website and it has loads of new parks added, mostly in China and Russia. See the Library section for the download link.

Version 3.2 of Malcolm Marr's World Parks Project for Google Earth is now available to download from the ECC website. See the Library section for the download link.